Deanna turns 9!

I can't let this day go by without some mention of Deanna's birthday! In all the busyness of getting back to normal after holidays, there wasn't much fuss made for her today. She'll have her party next weekend, so today she helped make her own birthday cake and we went swimming at the "Whale" pool. This is the one with the big waterslide (remember from Tim's birthday?). I think Allison went down the slide about 15 times before she even went in the pool. Then we came home and had cake, and I think the girls were mostly asleep before they got into bed!

Her basket of gifts

A couple favorites, paint-by-number and a stationery set, complete with feather pen!

Yay! Chocolate cake! They never ask for vanilla, do they?